The last astronaut to command a space shuttle mission is retiring from NASA at the age of 50, after 13 years at the agency.
Chris Ferguson, who likes to play drums for rock and roll astronaut band Max Q* in his spare time, was in at the end of the space shuttle era when he captained the final voyage of Atlantis, the 135th …

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Why retire?

If I was him I'd just keep being shuttle commander - it's not like he has to do anything, he could just be that laughable old curmudgeon who walks around in a space suit demanding that everyone calls him "commander" at the NASA office, regaling people with stories of the "olden days" when the coupling for the space loo went and they had to catch all the bits using a plactic bag and a drinking straw - the sitcom practically writes itself.